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good pot-plant, though the color is against it ; William Fal- 

 coner, the delicate pink sport from the last-named, will doubt- 

 less supersede its sportive parent on account of its more 

 pleasing shade of color ; Mrs. William Bowen, an improved 

 Mrs. Charles Wheeler, is sometimes seen in excellent condi- 

 tion, though it is uncertain ; La Triomphante is an old va- 

 riety rafely seen now-a-days. One exhibitor at Germantown 

 stated that he had grown this last continuously for the past 

 fifteen years, but now he never sees it offered for sale through 

 catalogues. It is white, shaded delicate pink. It is a beau- 

 tiful sort, and well worth preserving. " 



The following careful review of the Continental chrysanthe- 

 mums, introduced into the 1891 trade, is made by a corres- 

 pondent of The Garden:* 



"When the list of new Continental chrysanthemums for 

 1890 was given in The Garden about twelve months since, it 

 will be remembered that the number distributed then was 

 fewer than had been the case for some years previous. No 

 such cause for congratulation, however, can now be found ; 

 nentai f° r upon casting up the varieties mentioned in the foreign 

 hemmns" ca ^ a ^°^ ues as new seedlings for the ensuing year, the total ap- 

 pears to be 284 of all sections. In this number are included 

 the productions of all the eminent raisers, such as Delaux, 

 De Reydellet, Lacroix, Rozain, as well as those of several 

 new-comers in the field, whose names are not so familiar to 

 English cultivators, although no doubt' their flowers will ulti- 

 mately find a place, even if only a temporary one, in the col- 

 lections of the English importers and trade-growers. 



"Some of those raisers mentioned last year as not con- 

 tributing to the list then, are in their place again this time, 

 Macary and Lassali in particular ; but Dr. Audiguier, Baco, 

 and Pertuzes seem to have stayed their hands for another 

 season, with what result it would be imprudent to predict. 

 The 1891 novelties, of course, comprise varieties of all estab- 

 lished sections, but a new race is promised, being the result 

 of carefully hybridizing the Malgako ; and with four new flow- 

 ers as the nucleus of what is to be termed the ' Toulouse 

 race,' we may expect further complications of classification 

 which will, like the Japanese iucurved, Japanese anemone, 

 Japanese reflexed, be duly treated by the properly constituted 



*" Chrysanth," in The Garden, xxxix.407 (May 2, 1891). 



